 ... complaining the rest of his life. A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in...  Essays, First Series - Page 66by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 pages
...newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls....not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls....not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...goes to Congress, 10 buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls....his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, 15 but a hundred chances. Let a Stoic0 open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning... | |
 | John Brown - 1910 - 698 pages
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 | Alice Hubbard - 1911 - 462 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls....walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not " study- 10 ing a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 614 pages
...Boston. He has not one chance but a hundred chances. Now let a stern preacher arise who shall reveal the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows. . . . A great act of much import to the new philosophical opinions is the garden discovery that a potato,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, 10 is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast...not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man 15 and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1917 - 96 pages
...newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast of his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls....not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and... | |
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